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HELP! XP virtual machine in Windows 7. - Carrie

Posted: May 09, 2011

My computer crashed. I bought a new computer that has Windows 7. The hospital I work for uses a Cisco VPN client that will not work with Windows 7. I bought the Windows 7 professional upgrade and set up the XP virtual system. Now everything works except my foot pedal (Infinity IN-DVIUSB). It seems this it is not truly a USB device but is a HIB device. I am going crazy without a foot pedal. Has anyone else gone through this? Is there a pedal that works with XP virtual machine? I tried to set up virtualbox, but I do have have a disk of windows xp. Any thoughts would be great!! Thanks.

Carrie

HID - ket

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I also wasted money upgrading to W7 Professional and installing virtual XP, only to learn my Infinity foot pedal wouldn't work.

If you can get an installation disk for XP, VMWare Player will work for your foot pedal. I think earlier versions of Windows will work for the installation, too, but I'm not sure. I vaguely remember choosing which OS I wanted to use before the command to insert my OS CD. VMWare is much easier to install than Virtualbox.

Don't need a disk - MQMT

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I had the same thing happen to me. I used VMware player (free) and it asked me for a disk also, but I was able to use the Windows 7 Pro Upgrade as my version of Windows. I don't remember exactly what I did, but it wasn't hard. Pedal works on the virtual machine and I am up and working again. *Thanks KET*

Thanks - Carrie

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Thanks. I tried VMware and I couldn't get my foot pedal to work there either. I get the error message "Host USB connections disabled- The connection to the VMware USB arbitration was unsecessful". I tried the fix for this, and it didn't solve the problem. I gave up and got one of my old dinosaur of a computers out. I will research and then experiment with the new one when I have regained some patience again!

VMware - ket

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Carrie, some suggestions to try.

Did you connect your foot pedal after you installed VMWare Player?

With VMWare virtual OS open, in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, there should be icons listing what is installed, including one for the foot pedal. If you right click on it, there should be an option to connect it to the virtual OS.

Open VMWare Tools and see if foot pedal is listed. If it isn't listed, you need to try to install it again. I got a message saying new hardware detected with the install wizard.

Check device manager to see if the foot pedal is listed and what the status is.

Hopefully one of them will work.

Problem probably not with Win7 or Virtual XP - MTmidwest

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I have Vista 64 with a virtual XP running. My computer is the problem, not the program. Your computer has to have a "hardware virtualization" feature available to the virtual XP to make any peripheral work with it. For example, in my virtual XP, my CD play works, the mouse works (but the roller on the mouse does not). Without that built into your computer no foot pedal will work with the virtual XP. Not that I'm aware of. There are little utilities online to download and run to check if your computer has this. If you do, it may not be enable and that could be an easy fix. Best of luck to you.

Use Virtual Box - Dana

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Use Virtual Box. Works on Win7 64-bit and foot pedal with no problems. Use it for DocQscribe and Escription. Must have CD of XP or 32-bit or OS of choice to install. Otherwise, works perfectly!

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